Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-16 Thread Liam Proven
On 16 March 2012 13:00, alan c wrote: > > Hi Alan, I do see your point. However, when, a while ago I first used > Unity and the dash, I poked around  looking for stuff and trying to > make sense of (something) ...  But I remember that when I came across > this alphabet big list, I felt relieved! L

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-16 Thread Liam Proven
On 16 March 2012 08:44, Alan Bell wrote: > > well the problem is that there is zero organisation of the apps, you can't > drag them around onto different pages like you do on a smartphone to put > them in an order that makes sense to you, and they are not pre-sorted in a > way that makes sense to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-16 Thread Liam Proven
On 16 March 2012 08:24, alan c wrote: > On 15/03/12 22:44, Liam Proven wrote: >> But I reckon that many of the new users flooding across once 12.04 is >> the new LTS are going to want actual good old-fashioned menus. :¬/ > > Are you sure about this? I am not. Most of the friends I help with > Ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-16 Thread alan c
On 16/03/12 08:44, Alan Bell wrote: > On 16/03/12 08:24, alan c wrote: >> On 15/03/12 22:44, Liam Proven wrote: >>> But I reckon that many of the new users flooding across once 12.04 is >>> the new LTS are going to want actual good old-fashioned menus. :¬/ >> Are you sure about this? I am not. Most

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-16 Thread Alan Bell
On 16/03/12 08:24, alan c wrote: On 15/03/12 22:44, Liam Proven wrote: But I reckon that many of the new users flooding across once 12.04 is the new LTS are going to want actual good old-fashioned menus. :¬/ Are you sure about this? I am not. Most of the friends I help with Ubuntu are only inte

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-16 Thread alan c
On 15/03/12 22:44, Liam Proven wrote: > But I reckon that many of the new users flooding across once 12.04 is > the new LTS are going to want actual good old-fashioned menus. :¬/ Are you sure about this? I am not. Most of the friends I help with Ubuntu are only interested in the apps they use. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-15 Thread Liam Proven
On 15 March 2012 22:27, Alan Bell wrote: >> > oh, interesting. Sadly it won't work as the quicklists do not permit a > hierarchical menu structure (yes, I tried) I had a look at quicklists and figured they probably were not what I wanted or needed. The question is, can one create an app that run

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/03/12 22:27, Alan Bell wrote: I think the way to fix the unity dash is to just fix the applications lens so it uses the categories as categories like this http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/applicationslens.png wrong image, I meant this one http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/appmenulen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/03/12 19:21, Liam Proven wrote: On 15 March 2012 19:12, Alan Bell wrote: On 15/03/12 18:56, Liam Proven wrote: Is it possible to write an applet that runs just as an icon in the Launcher and whose UI just consists of context menus? kind of, this would be just a .desktop file with a lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-15 Thread Liam Proven
On 15 March 2012 19:12, Alan Bell wrote: > On 15/03/12 18:56, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> Is it possible to write an applet that runs just as an icon in the >> Launcher and whose UI just consists of context menus? >> > kind of, this would be just a .desktop file with a list of commands to run > for e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/03/12 18:56, Liam Proven wrote: Is it possible to write an applet that runs just as an icon in the Launcher and whose UI just consists of context menus? kind of, this would be just a .desktop file with a list of commands to run for each quicklist http://mhall119.com/2012/02/contributing-

[ubuntu-uk] Launcher applets

2012-03-15 Thread Liam Proven
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